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486 Turns 15 Years Old
wooby writes "The 486 processor , introduced in 1989 at 25 and 33MHz clock speeds, is now 15 years old. Intel's simultaneous launch of both the 486, a CISC chip, and the i860, a RISC chip, was a gamble. Remarks Intel's former CEO, Andy Grove: 'our equivocation caused our customers to wonder what Intel really stood for, the 486 or i860?'"
Three more years until she's legal!
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Oh. 15 years old, right.
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Ahhh, those were the days..... Gorilla still ran at a decent speed, but then when these new fangled contraptions came around, the banana moved at the speed of light!
And the i860 is controlling my DSL modem right now! What a team they make!
I remember watching my brother show me his 386 with sound. Dr. Sbiatso and all that. It so blew me away that I saved every dime and got a 486 with a video capture card, sound card, modem, blah blah blah. Cost me $3,500 For two years, every almost waking spare moment I had was spent on that machine.
That experience made me what I am today. A Slashdot geek with an old 486.
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She's legal in Canada. Age of consent is 14 here. I think the Liberals are trying to push it down to 13, the pervs.
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But in all seriousness, my college room-mate had a 386 and then replaced it with a 486. A guy on our floor had a 486 with tape drives and the works. That was great until someone hit his room with a leaner and hosed his whole backup system (which was on the floor). For all you who don't know what a leaner is, it's when someone fills a garbage can with water and tilts it against someone's door. When they open it, the water splooshes over everything, especially them. Pretty nasty! We used mirrors to check for leaners so they never got us.
Bah, I went from a 286, to a P-133 and then up from there, regularly. Nostalgia time. {{ahhhh}}
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Pretty RISCy maneuver, eh?
OH... and it had one of those mHz displays on the front, and with one press of the magical turbo button, I could go from 25 to 33 flat!
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I'd wait for the day the Pentium turns 15. I remembered the days of the popular Pentium bugs that affected various 60-100Mhz versions.
And who'd forget the classic that went something like...
The Pentium was not officially named 586 because 486+100 turned out to be 585.9999999999999.
Hmm... maybe it's finally time to upgrade.
Bah! 486? LOOGSHERIE! When I was your age, we didn't have none of those fangled 486es, oh no sir. 286 was more than enough for everyone... Or was that 64k of RAM? Now let me see...
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You get a relatively strong person to lean against the top half of the door, and wedge pennies between the door face and the door frame on the doorkknob edge. Repeat the process at the bottom of the door. This puts pressure on the bolt so that it cannot slide out, and the doorknob is jammed. This can only be undone from the outside so far as I know.
Back in the day, we had a dorm phone system where the circuit was not released until the caller hung up, so to complete the task, you'd call the dorm phone and leave your receiver off the hook so the person had to hang out their window and shout for help.
When I was an MIT student, this happened occasionally, but somebody always took pity on the victim and let them out almost immediately. Usually the perpetrator. All, in all, this is a nasty, potentially dangerous trick to play on somebody. The first rule of hacker ethics is do no harm. The second rule is safety.
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a modem cost $300 when your cat chewed through the power cable? (I miss poor fluffy.)
Fluffy seems like an unusual name for a modem.
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